Febs
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Hi all, just after a bit of advice on finalising 2 x OneWorld Explorers I just booked using QFF points. 
Plan was to build up an itinerary on the OneWorld RTW planner, then see how much it was decimated by award availability. To my pleasant surprise, almost every single flight was available! Except LAX-SYD, even though I'm 11 months out (school holidays, d'oh). Requested a seat be made available (as a Plat) so fingers crossed. The next available option was 10 days later, even returning via AKL!
(The only other change was to the PVG-HKG-DXB flights below, but given I was apparently lucky to get a HKG-DXB on points, I'm not too fussed.)
Final routing is:
SYD-PVG(stop)-HKG-DXB(stop)-LHR(stop)-MUC(stop)/TXL-MAD-BCN(stop)-HEL(stop)-JFK(stop)-LAX-SYD.
Anyway, onto the point of this post. The routing is fine, except I'm two stopovers over the 5 stopover limit. The QFF agent (Michael, VERY helpful!) suggested he'll reserve all of them, and tomorrow I should let them know which two flights I want to dump.
LHR-MUC is a logical one, as it's only 8,000pts on BA. The second one will be either TXL(or somewhere else in Germany)-BCN, or BCN-HEL.
I'm about to go and search for cheap flights (both are 20,000pts so I'd like to see what paid options there are), but if anyone has any recommendations, I'm all ears. The flight to BCN doesn't have to be from TXL, we'll have a car in Germany so could really fly from anywhere to BCN.
Would really appreciate any advice!
Cheers,
- Febs.
Plan was to build up an itinerary on the OneWorld RTW planner, then see how much it was decimated by award availability. To my pleasant surprise, almost every single flight was available! Except LAX-SYD, even though I'm 11 months out (school holidays, d'oh). Requested a seat be made available (as a Plat) so fingers crossed. The next available option was 10 days later, even returning via AKL!
(The only other change was to the PVG-HKG-DXB flights below, but given I was apparently lucky to get a HKG-DXB on points, I'm not too fussed.)
Final routing is:
SYD-PVG(stop)-HKG-DXB(stop)-LHR(stop)-MUC(stop)/TXL-MAD-BCN(stop)-HEL(stop)-JFK(stop)-LAX-SYD.
Anyway, onto the point of this post. The routing is fine, except I'm two stopovers over the 5 stopover limit. The QFF agent (Michael, VERY helpful!) suggested he'll reserve all of them, and tomorrow I should let them know which two flights I want to dump.
LHR-MUC is a logical one, as it's only 8,000pts on BA. The second one will be either TXL(or somewhere else in Germany)-BCN, or BCN-HEL.
I'm about to go and search for cheap flights (both are 20,000pts so I'd like to see what paid options there are), but if anyone has any recommendations, I'm all ears. The flight to BCN doesn't have to be from TXL, we'll have a car in Germany so could really fly from anywhere to BCN.
Would really appreciate any advice!
Cheers,
- Febs.
